While workplace giving, matching and volunteering programs are becoming bigger pieces of the CSR picture, large grants allow charities to implement programs and projects that are mission critical to advance their causes. However, as the landscape of community investment changes, so too does the opportunity to increase both the social and business ROI of grants.

The opportunity lies within the ability to bring the traditional components of community investment programs together for greater impact. What we don't want: employees unaware of their employer’s community efforts, disenfranchised by an “arm-twisting” annual campaign, or participating without feeling engaged.

Benevity has been working with Fortune 1000 companies to help them achieve better business and social outcomes by aligning their community investment and employee engagement strategies. Thus harnessing the power of these programs when they are brought together on a single technology platform--the results are impressive.